------------------------------------------ -- EZ A SZÁM CSAK TEXT FORMÁBAN LÉTEZIK -- ------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Feb 91 22:48:35 EST Subject: *** FORUM *** #154 Tartalomjegyzek: ---------------- Felado : 72600.3046@compuserve.com Temakor : Gondolatok a haborurol =============================================== Felado : 72600.3046@compuserve.com Beerkezett: Sun Feb 24 03:34:30 EST 1991 Temakor : Gondolatok a haborurol - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first... The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: "It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war." Then the few will shout even louder... Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it... Next, the statesmen will invent cheap lies... and each man will be glad of these lies and will study them because they soothe his conscience; and thus he will bye and bye convince himself that the war is just and he will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys by his self-deception. Mark Twain (The Mysterious Stranger, 1900) We in America live in the age of justifications. We hire lawyers and professionals to justify our deeds. And if we manage to justify them ... then we really haven't done anything wrong... Keith Jarrett, szolo koncert, Berkeley, feb. 2. Cogito ergo sum. I aim, therefore you are (a military target). Technology in the service of morality spoke out once more in Defense Secretary Cheney's tranquil affirmation that yes, two missiles had been targeted on the air-raid shelter in Baghdad and had struck their target with great "precision". In Saudi Arabia, Brig. Gen. Richard Neal spoke proudly of the "active bunker-busting campaign" and, when prompted to express compassion for the hundreds of dead women and children, continued after a nanosecond of pro forma regret to insist that this was a "legitimate target, attacked by professional officers." This is the verbal and spiritual environment of mass murder, of war crimes. Alexander Cockburn It is curious, but profoundly symptomatic of the present conflict, that the one word that should be tediously pronounced and repronounced and yet left unanalyzed is "linkage", an ugly solecism that could have been invented only in late twentieth-century America. "Linkage" means not that there is but that there is no connection. Things that belong together by common association, sense, geography, history, are sundered, left apart for convenience's sake and for the benefit of U.S. imperial strategists. Everyone his own carver, Jonathan Swift said. That the Middle East is linked by all sorts of ties, that is irrelevant. The Arabs might see a connection between Saddam in Kuwait and Israel in Lebanon, that too is futile. That U.S. policy itself is the linkage, this is a forbidden topic to broach. Edward Said I hereby find that the defense of Saudi Arabia is vital to the defense of the United States. - Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, Feb. 18, 1943. Roosevelt delivered this finding about 10 years after Socal (now Chevron) bought rights to Saudi oil for 50,000 pounds in loans and annual rent of 5,000 pounds. With the outbreak of World War II, King Ibn Saud, ruler of the world's only eponymous country, found that his major source of income - pilgrims to Mecca - had dried up, so he needed more money. Blanching at the idea of actually sharing their oil profits with the King, Socal and Texaco, which had bought half of Socal's interests in 1936, turned to the U.S. government for help. Roosevelt issued his finding, and soon Lend-Lease money was on the way, in accordance with a fine tradition: public subsidy of an industry that thinks of itself as the domain of macho individualists. In the late 1940s, Socal and Texaco brought Exxon (then Standard Oil of New Jersey) and Mobil into this juicy Saudi business, forming the Arabian-American Oil Co., or Aramco. Also in the late 1940s, an idea that arose in Venezuela captured King Saud's mind - a 50/50 profit split. The Aramco partners, dreading the loss of half their take, approached the U.S. government with a plan: they could deduct the Saudis' half-share from their taxable income. Though U.S. officials moaned about this subsidy to Aramco and the royal family, they agreed to it, rationalizing it as foreign aid. The public didn't learn about this "golden gimmick" for six years. Doug Henwood, Meet the New Order 'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom! So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms. So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms. In your electronic arms. Laurie Anderson, O Superman Feb. 23, 23:43, a foldi haboru nyolcadik orajaba lepett. 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